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PEOPLE vs. Lay, et al

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ONG CHIAT LAY, ET AL., defendants. ONG CHIAT LAY, appellant.

G.R. No. 39086 | 1934-10-26

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J:

Appellant and two others, Ong Ban Hua and Kua Sing, were jointly informed against by the provincial fiscal of Zamboanga, charging them with having feloniously burned a building in which was located a store belonging to the appellant. Upon a plea of "not guilty," appellant and his codefendants were tried jointly upon said information; and, after trial, while Ong Ban Hua and Kua Sing were acquitted, appellant was found guilty of the crime of arson and sentenced to suffer sixteen years and one day of reclusion temporal, with the accessory penalties provided by law, to indemnify Francisco Barrios and Mariano...